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x^ith some sugar, or the smoak taken by a pipe, fasting, 

 helpetli to expel worms in the stomach and belly, and to 

 iease the pains in the head, or megrim and the griping 

 pains ill the bowels. It is profitable for the stone in the 

 kidnies, both to ease pains by pros'oking urine, and also 

 to expel gravel and the stone engendered therein, and 

 hath been found elfeclual to expel windiness, and other 

 humours, which causeth the strangling of the mother. 

 The seed hereof is very effedual to expel the tooth-ach, 

 and the ashes of the burnt herb to cleanse the gums, and 

 make the teeth white. The herb bruised and applied to 

 the place grieved with the king's. evil, helpeth it in nine 

 or ten days eft'edlually. Monardus saith, it is a counter- 

 poison against the biting of any venomous creature; the 

 herb being outwardly applied to the hurt place. The 

 distilled water is often given with some sugar before the 

 fit of an ague. If the distilled faeces of the lierb, having 

 heen bruised before the distillation, and not distilled dry, 

 be set in warm dung for fourteen days, and afterwards 

 be hung up in a bag in a wine cellar, the liquor that dis- 

 tilleth therefrom is singularly good to use for cramps, 

 achs, the gout and sciatica, and to heal itches, scabs, 

 and running ulcers, cancers, and all foul sores whatsoever. 

 The juice is also good for all the said griefs, and likewise 

 to kill lice in children's heads. The green herb bruised 

 and applied, cureth any fresh wound or cut whatsoever ; 

 and the juice put into old sores, both cleanseth and heal- 

 eth them. There is also made hereof a singular good salve 

 to Jielp imposthumes, hard tumours, and other swellings 

 by blows and falls. 



The Tamarisk Tree. Tj . (h. d. 3 J 



It is so well known in the place where it grows that it 

 ncedeth no description. 



Time'] It flowereth about the end of May, or in June, 

 and the seed is ripe and blown away in the beginning 

 of September. 



Gov€7'nment and Virtues.'] A gallant Saturnine herb 

 it is. The root, leaves, young branches, or bark boiled 

 in wine, and drank, stays the bleeding of the haemorr- 

 hoidal yeins, the spitting of blood, the too abounding 



